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Josh Billings

Fecha de nacimiento: 20. Abril 1818Fecha de muerte: 14. Octubre 1885

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Josh Billings was the pen name of 19th-century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw . He was a famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States, perhaps second only to Mark Twain, during the latter half of the 19th century.

— Josh Billings[http://books.google.com/books?id=Wpk_AAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+lion+and+the+lamb+may+possibly+sumtime+lay+down+in+this+world+together+for+a+fu+minnits+but+when+the+lion+kums+tew+git+up+the+lamb+will+be+missing&quot;&pg=PA227#v=onepage Affurisms: Slips of the Pen] The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876)

— Josh Billings[https://archive.org/details/joshbillingsoni00billgoog Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things] (1868), Chapter XXIV: "Perkussion Caps", p. 89; republished in [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36556 The Complete Works of Josh Billings] (1876), Chapter 141: "Ods and Ens", p. 248. Often paraphrased as "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."